-The Queen is a direct descendant of William the Conqueror, 24 generations removed.
-Mt. Everest is supposed to be pronounced "Eave-rest".
-Nobody realized Haiti and Liechtenstein had the same flag until the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
-John Lennon and Stuart Suttcliffe mugged people for extra cash when The Beatles lived in Hamburg.
-Medical imaging rooms and equipment have to built with low-background steel forged before 1945, usually from sunken battleships.
-Canada attempted to colonize an island north of Siberia in the early 1900s.
-Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are technically one lake.
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